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Content Development Committee
BACKGROUND

  
The Content Development Committee is comprised of experts in facilitated learning and each has content expertise in clinical medicine related to one of the forms of cancer that a subject matter for the cases. This group focuses on developing problem-based teaching cases to complement the 12 existing multi-station Objective Structured Clinical Examinations. These Problem Based Learning (PBL) learning materials address a set of core competencies pertaining to cancer prevention, detection and control. The cases are written to assist students in developing problem solving skills and clinical reasoning by having exposure to situations that closely simulate real-life scenarios that the physician would encounter. Through these cases, undergraduate medical students are offered the opportunity to learn the knowledge necessary to becoming effective cancer prevention, detection and control agents in the primary care setting.

 

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